Bao Ping looked at the huge black stone tablet and said,
"Why are the people in this valley called immortals? What relationship do they have with gods? Shouldn't the descendants of mountain gods become demigods?"
"Essentially speaking, immortals and gods have nothing to do with each other!",
Chen Zhi stood beside Bao Ping and said softly,
"In fact, for a long time in the past, the word "immortal" was easily confused with God.
Human historical materials are also very confusing about the concepts of immortals and gods. Some people even think that immortals are gods and gods are immortals, so they have always been collectively called gods.
But in fact, there is an essential difference between gods and immortals.
In Jiang's library, there are clear records about gods and immortals.
God is born a god, and all his abilities come from his noble bloodline, which cannot be changed through acquired efforts.
"Xian" is a general term for people with extraordinary abilities.
Many "fairies" were just ordinary humans or animals at first, or even some extinct large ancient creatures, like ghosts, mountain monsters, etc.
Through some method, they gained the ability to transcend the mortal world, acquired wisdom, and thus became immortals and were able to cast some spells.
But at the same time, because they are wild and undeveloped, they may also cause harm to the world and bring disaster to all living beings.
But no matter how powerful these immortals are, they can never compare to gods, because their power does not come from blood, but from acquired cultivation. This is the essential difference between immortals and gods.
Some powerful "immortals" were made exceptions and were canonized as immortal gods because of their immortal achievements.
For example..., the Changbai Mountain God who has long since died in this mountain god's tomb, Chaoha Zhanye!"
"It's very interesting to make immortals into gods!",
Bao Ping smiled lightly, turned to look at Chen Zhi,
"You just said that this old mountain god named Chaoha Zhanye has some disgraceful background.
What exactly is it?
Also, why do you call him Earth Demon? This title doesn’t sound very nice.
In my memory, the new gods conferred by Lord Jiang Shang should all be descendants of gods with both virtue and virtue.
I have heard you say with my own ears that becoming a god is just a ritual. Those demigods who have been named already have the qualifications of gods. So what qualifications does a mountain god like this have to be canonized as a god?"
"This... is probably a special case!",
Chen Zhi looked at the black stone tablet, and an inexplicable sense of shame seeped out of his heart. He looked at the hand-carved sacred texts again, and then said softly,
"I don't know what Jiang Ziya was thinking at that time.
But the last time I came here, I saw some very ancient information in the tomb of Chaoha Zhanye!
It is said that this Chaoha divination master once performed divination for Jiang Ziya during the period when King Wu was conquering Zhou and made great achievements in battle.
Therefore, he was canonized under special circumstances.
There are some very ancient scrolls in the tomb of the gods. I don’t know what era they are from!
The colors are bright and the painting style is rich, just like the current New Year paintings, it is the style of the most primitive Jurchen tribe!
In those paintings, when the mountain god was an earth demon, he had a green face, fangs, and a human head hanging from his waist, looking very terrifying.
It should... be a human-eating creature!
And he was very cruel. According to the above records, when he knew that his daughter Foculun had given birth to a human child, he tortured his daughter to death and then locked her in the tomb of the god with a control chain.
I have seen the corpse of the goddess Foculun. It is so horrible that even if thousands of years have passed, she will not be able to escape!"
After Chen Zhi finished speaking, he turned to look at the innocent and kind-hearted villagers of Immortal Valley in front of him.
"But no matter what, this bloodline remains!
I heard from the immortals here that Hezeming, the most primitive goddess of Changbai Mountain, was very gentle and charitable, so her daughter, the goddess Foculun, inherited her temperament.
Then came the Aixinjueluo Dynasty and the Immortal Valley.
And that Chaoha Zhanye should have turned into a pile of withered bones, that is its fate.
This may be what is called fate!
"Can the man-eating earth demon become a god? Haha~~",
Bao Ping sneered coldly, then looked at the sacred inscriptions on the black stone carefully, as if he was appreciating a painting, and then sneered again,
"Abolish the originally beautiful goddess in the mountain, then make the earth demon here the new mountain god, and force the goddess to the earth demon.
Haha~~",
Bao Ping looked at Chen Zhi with a strange smile,
"Clan Chief Chen, it seems that our deity is not very picky when choosing new deities!"
"this……",
Chen Zhi felt speechless. He didn't know how to reply or defend Jiang Ziya.
Then there was only silence...
The villagers were very enthusiastic. They led the team all the way into the village. Although it was already bright, there were large palace lanterns on both sides of the road, illuminating the jade ground here even brighter.
Immortal Valley is a small town with very complete public facilities. Although the villagers here are isolated from the outside world, it does not mean that they are completely ignorant of outside technology.
Moreover, the immortal people have their own way of life, and the Tang family at the foot of the mountain often comes here, and generators and other things are also sent here.
Modern technology, coupled with the unique religious atmosphere of ancient shamanism, has turned everything here into a semi-civilized living state, which is quite exotic and makes people forget to leave.
The villagers sent the entire team to the largest house in the village, which was the big house of the village chief Xuan Lin.
Xuanlin's house was very large. The entire yard was planted with cedars, which were covered with white snow.
There is a large oven on the ground in the yard, surrounded by a circle of wooden chairs. The carvings on the wooden chairs are very interesting. Except for the pure white snow, they are spotless and clean. They are simple but solemn.
It's like a fairy palace.
Xuanlin's house has a brick pavilion with a warm floor inside, and a long Kang mat outside, all in Manchu style, just like the palace in the Qing Dynasty drama.
After everyone entered, they all sat down on the kang mat. The warriors and people in black gathered in the courtyard. Xuan Lin asked people to light the stove to keep everyone warm.
In an instant, the whole courtyard was very lively.
The residents of Immortal Valley were very grateful to Chen Zhi and the others, and Xuan Lin didn't say too much. They actually didn't know much about the danger they were about to face.
Even though they knew that Chen Zhi and the others were here for something this time, they still insisted on having a big banquet, lighting an oven and setting up a rack in the middle of the yard.
Since the last incident with mutants, there have been basically no wild beasts in the mountains. It will probably take a long time to restore the ecosystem.
But there are a lot of materials sent by the Tang family here, including wild animals from Changbai Mountain, which are released into the valley to breed and reproduce in the ecosystem.
There are also many large live cattle and sheep that are given to each household. Now some villagers suggest that they slaughter a few sheep and entertain the distinguished guests.
But Chen Zhi stopped them. There is only so much time to come. After the mission is over, this kind of banquet can be held anytime.
But it's not suitable now, because where they are now is at the top of Changbai Mountain.
It is too close to the depths of Changbai Mountain, the deepest Fengdu Ghost Town below...